Two-photon interference: the Hong–Ou–Mandel effect

F Bouchard, A Sit, Y Zhang, R Fickler… - Reports on Progress …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Nearly 30 years ago, two-photon interference was observed, marking the beginning of a
new quantum era. Indeed, two-photon interference has no classical analogue, giving it a …

Quantum interferometers: principles and applications

RB Jin, ZQ Zeng, C You, C Yuan - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2024 - Elsevier
Interference, which refers to the phenomenon associated with the superposition of waves,
has played a crucial role in the advancement of physics and finds a wide range of …

Distinguishability and many-particle interference

AJ Menssen, AE Jones, BJ Metcalf, MC Tichy, S Barz… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
Quantum interference of two independent particles in pure quantum states is fully described
by the particles' distinguishability: the closer the particles are to being identical, the higher …

Generalized multiphoton quantum interference

M Tillmann, SH Tan, SE Stoeckl, BC Sanders… - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
Nonclassical interference of photons lies at the heart of optical quantum information
processing. Here, we exploit tunable distinguishability to reveal the full spectrum of …

Stringent and efficient assessment of boson-sampling devices

MC Tichy, K Mayer, A Buchleitner, K Mølmer - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
Boson sampling holds the potential to experimentally falsify the extended Church-Turing
thesis. The computational hardness of boson sampling, however, complicates the …

Quantum transport on disordered and noisy networks: an interplay of structural complexity and uncertainty

M Walschaers, F Schlawin, T Wellens… - Annual Review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
We discuss recent research on quantum transport in complex materials, from photosynthetic
light-harvesting complexes to photonic circuits. We identify finite, disordered networks as the …

Sampling of partially distinguishable bosons and the relation to the multidimensional permanent

MC Tichy - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
The collective interference of partially distinguishable bosons in multimode networks is
studied via double-sided Feynman diagrams. The probability for many-body scattering …

Partial indistinguishability theory for multiphoton experiments in multiport devices

VS Shchesnovich - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We generalize an approach for description of multiphoton experiments with multiport unitary
linear optical devices, started in Phys. Rev. A 89, 022333 (2014) PLRAAN 1050-2947 …

Multiphoton interference in quantum fourier transform circuits and applications to quantum metrology

ZE Su, Y Li, PP Rohde, HL Huang, XL Wang, L Li… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
Quantum Fourier transforms (QFTs) have gained increased attention with the rise of
quantum walks, boson sampling, and quantum metrology. Here, we present and …

Many-particle interference beyond many-boson and many-fermion statistics

MC Tichy, M Tiersch, F Mintert… - New Journal of …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Identical particles exhibit correlations even in the absence of inter-particle interaction, due to
the exchange (anti) symmetry of the manyparticle wavefunction. Two fermions obey the …